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- The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) of Nigeria has vaccinated 5,770,899 eligible persons with the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination
- The persons who took the second dose was 3,146,885.
- These figures were achieved as on November 7, 2021, in the 36 states
The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) of Nigeria has vaccinated 5,770,899 eligible persons with the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination. The persons who took the second dose was 3,146,885.
This was disclosed by Director, Planning Research and Statistics, NPHCDA, Abdullahi Garba. Mr Garuba added that these figures were achieved as on November 7, 2021, in the 36 states. He noted that there were over eight million doses of vaccines in the country at the moment. But the country was still expecting more doses. Nigeria had set an ambitious goal of vaccinating 40 per cent of its over 200 million population before the end of 2021. The remaining 70 per cent will be vaccinated by the end of 2022. The vaccine roll-out was scheduled to be in four phases, starting with health workers, frontline workers, COVID-19 rapid response team, amongst others.
The second phase has commenced and it’s capturing older adults, aged 50 years and above, and those aged between 18 and 49 years of age. While progress had been made in response to the ongoing pandemic with the fact-paced development of diagnostic, therapeutic, and vaccines globally, variants of concern with increased transmissibility pose a threat. Africa had seen fewer severe cases and deaths but despite limitations of testing.
